Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A continued fever.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.), obsolete See synochus.

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  • noun medicine, obsolete synochus; continuous fever

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Examples

  • According to the views of those times fever was itself a disease _per se_; when reaction was predominating it was called synocha, typhus when weakness was the feature, and in case of a combination of synocha and typhus it was called synochus,

    Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877

  • If the fever be attended with a strong pulse, as in pleurisy, or rheumatism, it is termed synocha sensitiva, or sensitive fever with strong pulse; which is usually termed inflammatory fever.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • This latter form occurs sometimes with fever, like synocha, sometimes without fever, and it arises from pestilential air or corrupt food, or from sitting near a patient suffering from the disease, the exhalations of which are infectious.

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • Occasionally, too, the disease arises from excessive corruption of matter in repletion of blood, and hence it is more frequent in sanguineous diseases, like synocha, and during the prevalence of south winds or the shifting of winds to the south, and in infancy -- the age characterized particularly by heat and moisture.

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • The increased frequency of the pulsation of the heart and arteries, as it is occasioned either by excess or defect of stimulus, or of sensorial power, exists both in the cold and hot fits of fever; but when the cold fit ceases, and the pulse becomes strong and full as well as quick, in consequence of the increased irritability of the heart and arteries, it constitutes the irritative fever, or synocha.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Why the pulse should become quicker both from an increase of irritation, as in the synocha irritativa, or irritative fever with strong pulse; and from the decrease of it, as in the typhus irritativus, or irritative fever with weak pulse; seems paradoxical.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • The former of these fevers is the synocha of nosologists, and the latter the typhus mitior, or nervous fever.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • This is the synocha of some writers, it is attended with strong pulse without inflammation; and in this circumstance differs from the febris inirritativa of Class I. 2. 1. 1. which is attended with weak pulse without inflammation.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • The pulse is synocha, intermitting, preternatu - rally slow, frequent, quick, depressed, or morbid - ly natural, exactly as we find it in other arterial diseases of great morbid action.

    Medical inquiries and observations, upon the diseases of the mind Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 1812

  • Hence the stomach continues torpid in respect to its motions, but accumulates its power of association; which is not excited into action by the defective motions of the spleen; this accumulation of the sensorial power of association now by its superabundance actuates the next link of associate motions, which consists of the heart and arteries, into greater energy of action than natural, and thus causes fever with strong pulse; which, as it was supposed to be most frequently excited by increase of irritation, is called irritative fever or synocha.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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